A confidential source working for the FBI arranges a meeting with Crawford at a restaurant in Scotia. Crawford explains his plan to use radiation to kill his enemies, particularly Muslims, stating that "radiation poisoning is a beautiful thing."

July

Numerous text messages and emails about the technical aspects of the radiation weapon are exchanged between Crawford and undercover FBI agents, whom Crawford believes are interested in building the device.

July 27-30

Crawford has surgery at Saratoga Hospital on the 30th. Days before going under the knife, he text-messages an undercover agent how to proceed in the event he dies, writing that "if something happens I don't want this to go away, it can serve our people well."

August 23

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People in the case

Person A: Referred to as "my buddy the electronic tinkerer" by Crawford, used for technical expertise.

Crawford meets with a member of the Ku Klux Klan in a small town in North Carolina to seek financial help. That person becomes a confidential informant for the FBI.

October 4

Crawford travels to Greenboro, N.C., to meet with people he believes are high ranking members of the Ku Klux Klan.

November 14

Undercover agents meet with Crawford and Eric J. Feight at a coffee shop near Albany. At the meeting, they name their group "the Guild," and Feight expresses he was a "bit nervous" at first, but "after seeing ... the direction things were going and then certainly after the elections ... that old saying is right ... the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

2013

January 11

Feight meets an unidentified GE employee in a GE parking lot to drop off a list of necessary parts to build the weapon. This individual is used as a proxy by Crawford and referred to in the complaint as "Person C."

February 1

While ordering parts from a supply store, Crawford is asked by the store's employee what the company's name is, and Crawford replies with the name of a coffee shop where he has held numerous meetings. Crawford spends weeks working to obtain the parts to build the weapon through assumed identities and helpers.

March 7

Crawford suggests "Person C" buy some parts. Later that day, Person C texts Crawford: "I was not avoiding u in the office just did not want to take a chance of anyone hearing especially [co-workers]."

March 11

After a number of meetings at the coffee shop, Crawford texts the shop owner's number, referred to as "Person E," asking the individual to order parts.

March 22

Crawford calls an Internet and email service provider to cancel his account because he was "creeped out by Big Brother." He reactivated the email account a week later.

March 25

Crawford texts the coffee shop number again, stating, "Hello, have the resources made it to you? I can stop and order if you are ready." No reply from "Person E" was ever intercepted, though Crawford visited the coffee shop on multiple occasions after that.

April

Crawford continues to try to push the project forward, picking up parts from "Person C" at the person's home, texting Feight to urge his completion of the remote piece of the device, and exchanging more parts with Feight in a GE parking lot.

May 20

An undercover agent meets Crawford at an Albany hotel to test the remote triggering system. Crawford tells the agent "Glad I met you guys," and "we are going to drive a stake through their heart."

June 18

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A meeting is set up between Feight, Crawford and the undercover agents, so they can assemble and connect a radiation device for testing. Instead, Feight and Crawford are arrested.